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JavaScript Pocket Reference
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JavaScript Pocket Reference

by David Flanagan
October 1998
Intermediate to advanced
95 pages
4h 36m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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JavaScript Pocket Reference
Window
browser window or frame
Client-side JavaScript 1.0
Synopsis
self
window
window.frames[i]
Properties
The Window object defines the following properties. Non-
portable, browser-specific properties are listed separately after this
list. Note that the Window object is the Global object for client-
side JavaScript; therefore the Window object also has the proper-
ties listed on the Global reference page.
closed
A read-only boolean value that specifies whether the window
has been closed.
defaultStatus
A read/write string that specifies a persistent message to
appear in the status line whenever the browser is not
displaying another message.
document
A read-only reference to the Document object contained in
this window or frame. See Document.
frames[]
An array of Window objects, one for each frame contained
within the this window. Note that frames referenced by the
frames[] array may themselves contain frames and may have
a
frames[] array of their own.
history
A read-only reference to the History object of this window or
frame. See History.
length
Specifies the number of frames contained in this window or
frame. Same as
frames.length.
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location
The Location object for this window or frame. See Location.
This property has special behavior: if
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